(upbeat jazz music)
– What’s the style in terms
of do-overs or mess-ups?
Obviously, you need a blooper reel.
(laughs)
Hi. I’m Andy Durman.
And you may be able to
detect from my accent
that I’m not American,
like most hosts of this video series.
And neither is this fine beer I’m holding,
traditional English ale.
(music continues)
Mmm, warm beer.
You know how us Brits love our tea.
So here’s a fun fact.
In addition to America,
there are almost 200 other
countries in the world,
and I’m from one of them,
England in the UK,
which, as you probably know,
has its main exports of bowler hats,
earl grey tea,
and that brown stuff you may well know as
Wor-ces-ter-sh-eye-r sauce
but we actually call Woostershire sauce.
What about those almost 200 countries
that aren’t the US of A or Canada?
Since they also need
to help them understand
their own labour market work,
we at Emsi Burning Glass are on a mission
to bring our data to the world.
And I have the exciting task
of leading our global business unit
to such world domination.
(laughs villainously)
(laughs)
Emsi Burning Glass already
has a big footprint in the UK,
where we work with
around 200 organizations
in education, government,
and economic planning,
helping them solve
labour market challenges.
But now, we have our
sights set further afield.
The really fun thing is that
as a Brit, having left the European Union,
I am now on a mission to conquer it
with Emsi burning glass data, of course.
We have a great team in
Italy who already work
with a number of customers
throughout Europe.
In fact, Europeans are
having the same sorts
of labour market challenges
as the US and the UK,
growing skills gaps, huge
numbers of job vacancies,
and not enough workers
to fill those positions.
So we’re working with organizations like
Agencia per a la Qualitat
del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya.
Did I say that right?
Who are using our data and insights
as part of their regional
redevelopment plan,
which includes helping
Catalunya’s citizens
understand the labour market
to make more informed education
and employment decisions.
We’re also working with a number
of European Union agencies as well.
But Europe is a big place,
even bigger than Texas,
and so we have lots more work to do here.
(laughs)
– [Producer] I’m concerned.
– Emsi Burning Glass is
also working in Australia,
New Zealand, and Singapore.
In fact, our analysts
work with over a third
of Australian universities,
who are using Emsi Burning Glass data
to inform academic planning
and provide career guidance to students.
But we’re not stopping here.
There’s the rest of the planet
to enrich with our data,
including Latin America,
Asia, Africa, the Middle East.
We’ll even consider Antarctica,
although whether there’s
sufficient demand for our data
among the penguin community
is something we’re yet to establish.
(wind blowing)
The point is, labour market
and skills challenges
and opportunities are often very similar
in different parts of the world.
And understanding trends in one region
typically helps inform trends in another.
So here at Emsi Burning Glass,
we’re proud to say we’re
the global authority
on the labour market
and focused on leading the transition
to a future of work based
on skills and capabilities.
Cheers to all of our
clients around the globe,
working to improve the
lives of countless people
in every corner of the planet.
I’m Andy Durman.
Thanks for joining me for a pint.
(upbeat jazz music)
(exhales)